 |
| CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE |
'Mother Brown’ was a ‘WILLOWER” in her own way as it seems she was famous for her 'willow pegs' that sometimes still turn up in Tasmania with various stories attached to them along with memories of Mother Brown. It is just possible that Mother Brown made baskets too. Has anyone heard of this and better still does anyone know of one of her baskets?
A SMALL PIECE OF WOOD
Apparently wooden ‘dolly pegs’ were originally hand made by Gypsies in the UK, who sold them door to door. Sometimes they were carved from hedgerow wood, sometimes they were just a couple of sticks bound together with strips of tin. In Tasmania during the Great Depression a hawker by the name of One-Eyed Mrs Brown followed the same tradition. She sold large clothes pegs made from willow, camping out as she made her way around the State........ http://paulineconolly.com/2017/dolly-pegs-by-the-derwent/
CLICK HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpC2Nz-DHOA
Pegs were used to make Rugs with in the early days
ReplyDelete(Peggy Rugs).